Costin is relishing his second chance

IT MAY be something of a second coming but Jamie Costin will have arrived when he lines up for the 50k walk in the Bird’s Nest tomorrow morning (12.30am Irish time).

It’s eight years since he made his Olympic debut in Sydney and if his grit and commitment got him through that particular race on what was probably the hottest day of the 2000 Games he would have to draw on those steely qualities just to survive what would happen to him four years later.

On the eve of the Athens Olympics he was returning from a training session at the training camp in Greece when he was involved in an horrific collision with a tanker.